Comments on: USA Border Searches of Laptops.. http://www.slaw.ca/2009/10/28/usa-border-searches-of-laptops/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:41:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Edward Prutschi http://www.slaw.ca/2009/10/28/usa-border-searches-of-laptops/comment-page-1/#comment-708000 Edward Prutschi Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:26:46 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=13682#comment-708000 These policies have gone positively off the dial in their insanity. They can used to justify enormous invasions of privacy and extreme inconvenience for no articulable purpose whatsoever. The notion that getting on an airplane is an implied or express waiver of one's digital privacy is absurd. I'm curious if anyone is aware what the Canadian policy is both for international flights coming into Canada as well as searches of customers travelling domestically entirely within Canada. These policies have gone positively off the dial in their insanity. They can used to justify enormous invasions of privacy and extreme inconvenience for no articulable purpose whatsoever. The notion that getting on an airplane is an implied or express waiver of one's digital privacy is absurd.

I'm curious if anyone is aware what the Canadian policy is both for international flights coming into Canada as well as searches of customers travelling domestically entirely within Canada.

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